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Auction History Result

4t0051 SINGING FOOL hand-painted local theater 12.5x19.5 WC 1928 art of Al Jolson in blackface, rare!

Date Sold 8/1/2023
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A Hand-Painted Local Theater Movie Window Card (WC; measures 12 1/2" x 19 1/2" [32 x 50 cm]) (Learn More)

The Singing Fool, the 1928 Lloyd Bacon romantic love triangle family relationship musical melodrama ("See and Hear"; "The Sensational Talking Singing Picture"; "From the play by Leslie S. Barrows"; about a singing waiter who becomes a Broadway star, and he gets married and has a child, but then his wife leaves him for a gangster; that causes him to become massively depressed, and he ends up a bum, but gets his old job back as a waiter, where a friendly cigarette girl helps him make a comeback; but then his son dies the night of his return to the stage, and he sings his son's favorite song!) starring Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Arthur Housman, Reed Howes, Davey Lee, and Edward Martindel
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Important Added Info: Note that first release posters of any kind from this early Al Jolson movie are beyond rare. What is offered here is a hand painted "window card" that some local theater had painted for them! The person who painted it did not sign their work, so we don't know who created it, but it has a great image of Al Jolson without makeup and in full blackface, and it is a one of a kind original painting! The artist used a heavy board, and apparently they earlier had started creating a different window card on the back, but they only got so far as to draw the head of the starring lady (see our image of the reverse)

Condition: good. There is light scuffing scattered throughout, with surface paper loss in the lower right border. There is a tack hole at top center and some creases around the edges.
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